Fluid Mechanics Prizes

Professor Javier Jimenez

For his profound and lasting contributions to turbulence, notably wall turbulence, advancing our understanding through the introduction of groundbreaking physical concepts and for his pioneering work in numerical simulations of turbulent flows that have widespread educational influence.

Elisabeth Guazzelli

In recognition of her ground-breaking experiments on sedimenting suspensions, demonstrating the origin of particle fluctuations and cluster formation, for her decisive guidance of theory through focused experiments, and for her important contributions to the European mechanics community.

Andrea Prosperetti

In recognition of his profound, seminal contributions to fluid dynamics and acoustics in general and to bubble dynamics and rain noise in particular, including the development of novel numerical techniques, and for his world leadership in these fields and his brilliance in their applications to engineering.

John Hinch

For his exceptionally insightful contributions to fluid mechanics covering an extraordinarily wide range of topics including micro-hydrodynamics, interfacial flows, colloidal dispersions, suspension mechanics and sedimentation, flow through porous media, particulate and granular flows, polymer rheology and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics and for his innovative contributions to a variety of industrial processes.

Friedrich Busse

For his many outstanding contributions to fluid mechanics, most notably in the areas of thermal convection and pattern forming instabilities, geophysical flows and magnetohydrodynamic dynamos, and mathematical bounds on turbulent transport.

Emil Hopfinger

For his seminal work in at least three major areas of fluid mechanics: Stratified flows, waves and gravity currents; Rotating flows and vortex dynamics; Turbulence, interfacial instabilities and atomization. For his scientific breadth and remarkable impact on several fundamental issues in the field, and last but not least for his distinguished service to the European Fluid Mechanics community.

Keith Moffatt

For his outstanding accomplishments and beautifully creative ideas in theoretical fluid mechanics which have had a lasting impact in the development of the field, in particular for his seminal contributions to the study of turbulence and magnetohydrodynamics with the identification of helicity as a key concept in the understanding of global flow features and the creation of the new field of topological fluid dynamics, for his equally impressive analyses of low Reynolds number flows with the introduction of the notions of Moffatt eddies in flows near a sharp corner and cusp singularities in free surface flows.